The latest September-October 2022 issue of Water Resources IMPACT has hit the streets and I will feature its 9 articles as I previously did with the July-August issue (10 articles) that focused on Hydrophilanthropy. The current issue highlights Pacific Northwest Water. On 22 October I opened with Robert T. Lackey and salmon, then on 23 October with Paul J. Pickett's 'water vision' for Washington State. On 26 October I posted Elaine J. Hanford's 'The Hanford Nuclear Reservation and a Legacy of Groundwater Contamination'.
Here is Todd's 3-page PDF: Download Jarvis_WR_ IMPACT_Sept_Oct2022
The intro:
Global declines in endorheic basins - that have no external surface drainage other than evapotranspiration or groundwater seepage—are not new. The Aral Sea and the Dead Sea are media darlings.
Recently, though, attention has turned to the changes in endorheic basins within the Great Basin. In “The Lakes Sampler” issue of Water Resources IMPACT (March–April 2022), Elaine Hanford did a wonderful job of describing the thre main prehistoric pluvial lakes in the Great Basin—Bonneville, Lahontan, and Chewaucan. People ranging from historic migrants to pandemic refugees have long flocked to the region once inundated by Lake Bonneville, but now the dramatic drying of the remnant Great Salt Lake has raised health and safety issues connected to windblown dust. Lake Abert and Summer Lake in southeastern Oregon—the remnants of Lake Chewaucan—are also silently disappearing but without much fanfare, even though both lakes are important stops for migrating waterfowl and related ecotourism.
More than a century ago, an approach to decision making known as “The Oregon Way” was used to protect public access to Oregon’s beaches, and it may now provide the answer to preserving Lake Abert and Summer Lake.
Here is the IMPACT Issue with Elaine Hanford's article:
Download 168619 AWRA MarApr Impact v2
Good stuff!
Enjoy!
"The Oregon Way' is more about taking good ideas wherever they come from, rather than one party or philosophy." - Todd Jarvis
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